It's surprising how quickly the brain can adapt to hostile situations. Impending sense of doom & insomnia aside, it finally feels like just another workday rather than trying to work during an ongoing governmental collapse.
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I mean, it's good because my productivity was tanked and I have shit I want to actually get done.
But it's bad because I've just normalised "yeah, the US executive branch will try to illegally play with the breaker panels" and it's no longer an emergency, it's just the way it is.
Relatable , the fight to work on something you take pleasure and enjoy, versus the feeling that you are not doing everything in your power to support and fight this with your community.
I keep trying to combat normalizing any of this by using a phrase my dad told me a couple days after inauguration when I asked how he was still functioning
“Well, for now we’ve gotta drive this car till the wheels fall off”
It's like managing a chronic illness. Calling senators daily and protesting weekly are just additional actions I take for health. Only now, it's the health of my community rather than myself.
I keep thinking back to a flashback scene in Handmaid’s Tale like, “Oh you gotta sign off on my birth control and my husband now because *all this*” and carrying on. I get it now.
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But it's bad because I've just normalised "yeah, the US executive branch will try to illegally play with the breaker panels" and it's no longer an emergency, it's just the way it is.
From there, feels like, "Same thing, another impt agency/dept." It's an increase in scope, not necessarily new.
It sucks as the actions today are impt.
“Well, for now we’ve gotta drive this car till the wheels fall off”